Scope: Guide to materials available in the PHS library and through subscription databases.
Keywords: Use the conflict or controversial issue as your keyword. To narrow your search to a specific aspect, use two or three terms. For example:
Immigration AND Environmental AND Impact Population AND Immigration AND Environment
Print Resources: Use the Library Catalog to locate print resources in the PHS Library
Electronic Resources:
Gale Power Search: A research portal that allows you to research across all or selected Gale databases
Subscription Databases: See library staff for user names and passwords.
CQ Encyclopedia of American Government: provides answers to the full range of questions that students, government professionals, interested citizens, and other researchers have about the institutions of U.S. government.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context: The premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.
SIRS Knowledge Source: SIRS Knowledge Source (SKS) is a comprehensive database portal which is comprised of several distinct reference databases including SIRS Researcher®, SIRS Government Reporter®, SIRS Renaissance®, SKS WebSelect™, SIRS Discoverer®, and Discoverer WebFind™. Updated daily, SKS provides relevant, credible information on social issues, science, history, government, the arts and humanities. Full-text articles and Internet resources are carefully selected from thousands of domestic and international publications and respected organizations. Pro/Con Top Ten... box on right of home page. Click here to see all Pro/Con topics
CQ Researcher: provides award winning in-depth coverage of the most important issues of the day. Our reports are written by experienced journalists, footnoted and professionally fact-checked. Full-length articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, plus resources for additional research. Graphics, photos and short "sidebar" features round out the reports. Shorter "Hot Topics" articles provide a solid introduction to subjects most in demand by students.
US History in Context: Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.
World History in Context: Covers the people, places, and events in the broad expanse of history—from mid-15th century to the present.
Controversial Issues Pathfinder
Last Updated: April 2014
Scope: Guide to materials available in the PHS library and through subscription databases.
Keywords: Use the conflict or controversial issue as your keyword. To narrow your search to a specific aspect, use two or three terms. For example:
Immigration AND Environmental AND Impact
Population AND Immigration AND Environment
Print Resources: Use the Library Catalog to locate print resources in the PHS Library
Electronic Resources:
Gale Power Search: A research portal that allows you to research across all or selected Gale databasesSubscription Databases: See library staff for user names and passwords.